Burgess Excel Feeding Hay

[Markpd]

I recently had to buy this from Squires garden ctr as the hay I normally buy from Tesco was unavailable.

And I've got to say I'm not impressed with this Burgess (Timothy) hay, although there's no dust so far, the hay is cut very short, roughly 2-4" (5-10cm), where as the Tesco's stuff was virtually uncut (apart from to harvest it of course!).

Whilst the Burgess seems to have a good variety of plants in it, on the down side their seems to be quite a bit of very thick grass, although it's not as thick or as prickly as straw, it is pretty prickly.

So I won't being buy this again!

Forgot to mention cost, it was £6.79 for 1 kg, I can't remember how that compares to Tesco's stuff though.

[tanzanyte]

I might check Tesco out. I buy Friendly Readigrass but that is cut fairly short, it does have good variety and isn't too prickly. I found it fresher/greener than the other type Pure Pastures that I used to get.

[Markpd]

A follow up to this hay, I ended binning about the last 5th of it as it was just tiny bits, almost dust! Totally rubbish!

I've got Tesco's large meadow hay now which is much better , I'll do a review of that soon.

[betty]

I didn't realise TESCO even did hay - it is never on their online shop. I found a great long-strand hay at a local farm shop - REALLY long - they love battling their way through it. They can't get it under control as it pings away whenever they let go...

(I shouldn't laugh really)

As for price - I'd be interested to see some comparisons as hay has really gone up in price at the minute and it is so difficult to judge weight-for-weight value from images online. Always good to know a price per unit base price for comparisons on anything really.

[Markpd]

keeps them busy!

I've taken a few pics of it for the review I'll do, but JFYI it was £3 for 1.5kg (as of 9/10/22). Which I've just noticed is far cheaper than the rubbish I bought from Squires!!